Revista de Investigaciones Políticas y Sociológicas (RIPS) is an international half-yearly published journal founded in 1999. It publishes research articles, book reviews and research notes in the disciplines of political science and sociology, as well as in other social sciences. RIPS publishes unpublished works in Galician, Spanish, English, French, Portuguese, and Italian, after acceptance by the editorial advisory board.
RIPS meets all the Latindex quality criteria and is indexed in REDALYC, REDIB, Dialnet, ESCI (Emerging Sources  Citation Index), ERIH PLUS, DOAJ and ISOC.
The monthly mean of downloaded articles in the period 2007-2011 is 2.716 (REDALYC).
The digital portal of RIPS is published in Galician, Spanish and English; the languages of publication are the Galician, Portuguese, Spanish, French, English and Italian.